Nizhny Novgorod Sophia festivals in Russian Christmas January 7, the church will hold a grand prayer. January 14 is the Orthodox New Year, also known as Vasily section. Vasily God is considered a "pig god", also known as swine festival. Easter, the first Sunday after the Spring Festival the first month, a strong religious atmosphere of the festival has. Victory Day, May 9, the anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, but also a great day to defeat Germany and France. Independence Day, June 12, the National Day. October Revolution Day, in the November 7
Nizhny Novgorod Sophia shopping Matryoshka, painted wooden bowls, wooden spoon, vodka, army lists.
As the most brilliant masterpiece of Byzantine architecture, but now the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, but this form of Orthodox church building in the 13th century due to the feudal division, did not get to continue to develop only in Russia, Romania, Bulgaria Serbia and the region is popular, but also increasingly by local style evolution. This one is located in Nizhny Novgorod Haji Ya Sophia Cathedral is an example.
This church has been increased to five domes, the central dome of the highest point reached about 40 meters, the daring and more majestic than the Byzantine Hagia Sophia, but the volume is not horizontal development, but the vertical development. Relatively simple shape of the church, the body near a six-sided, it is particularly elegant gables flow, lively stretch, with the whole church dome, simple changes in pink and very harmonious combination of walls, it is the place in Eastern Europe Byzantine architecture style a typical example. Dome is gilded wall is white, and the church at the top of the arc arc shape with gable windows all coincide to form a narrow arc-shaped, which 哈基亚 Sophia Cathedral in Kiev's shape has common. Byzantine church that they are localized, mainly because it's a plane, as it continued to show a Greek cross. The church was established in 1045-1050 between. |